catchment

How To Use catchment In A Sentence

• Most league tables just tell you about the catchment area of schools. Times, Sunday Times
• By three, we're swithering about moving to the catchment area of the best state primary.
• What we need is to adopt whole river catchment plans from mountaintop to estuary, instead of the fragmented approach we have at present.
• This followed, in turn, the construction of dams in the various catchments, for irrigation and/or hydroelectric power generation.
• The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The War in the Air
• Aircoach should concentrate on locations with significant catchments - where people have reasons to gather - such as hotels and areas of business concentration.
• The number of people in the catchment area of the resource centre who now seek residential care has dropped dramatically.
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• Stream flow is nival, and carries DOC-enriched spring runoff from peaty catchments to Toolik Lake. Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic
• This development has resulted in extensive denudation of these catchment areas and an attendant loss of vegetative cover on the steep slopes, an increase in the incidence of landslides, soil erosion, and siltation of drainage systems in the valley bottoms and ultimately, increased incidence of flash flooding. Water profile of St. Lucia